Paranormalsoul tweeted: ‘Paranormal Activity 2 trailer may scare the $%!@ out of you…’ and nicole_frapp wrote: ‘Is it sad that i couldn’t get through the paranormal activity 2 trailer? the last movie wasn’t too scary, but the new trailer is. :(‘

However, not everyone on Twitter agreed. TheMoviebuff said: ‘The Paranormal Activity 2 trailer is not that scary. What are people so scared about? The 1st movie’s trailer was much scarier.’

The first film was a huge hit at the box office and a spoof of the movie was performed by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin at this year’s Oscars.

Paranormal Activity 2 is directed by Tod Williams and is released in the US on October 22.